Root MIUI ROM for Galaxy S4 i9505 – How to

The popular MIUI can now be rooted on Samsung Galaxy S4 bringing amazing customization, interface and many features that are not available on stock S4 firmware. MIUI also improves the pre-installed apps on Samsung Galaxy S4 stock. Another incredible feature that is popular among users is MIUI’s in-built file manager to get a pretty stunning UI on the smartphone.

Note: since this is an initial release of MIUI Galaxy S4 ROM, you may encounter bugs. But those will be ironed out as the development progresses.

Turn your Samsung Galaxy S4 off and reboot the device into recovery mode: press and hold volume up, home and power buttons.

Now create a Nandroid backup of your current ROM – important step to be able to restore back if anything does not work out. To create backup: Backup and Restore > Backup again.

In recovery mode, perform wipe tasks: select the wipe data/factory reset, and confirm on the next screen. Select wipe cache then and confirm and finally select wipe dalvik cache under advanced and confirm it.